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Check your link...when I tried it I got a story about some guy in a domestic dispute resisting arrest...
 
Posts: 1780 | Location: South Texas, U. S. A. | Registered: 22 January 2004Reply With Quote
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This is really sad. Very close to home. Giddings is only about an hour from here but I don't recall having ever heard anything about it on the local news. I understand that 454 Casull recoil is severe but severe enough to cause a blow to the head that can kill? Yikes.
 
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CDH,

The link worked fine yesterday. Seeing it is a newspaper article and has most likely rotated to the archives. To get a copy you may have to go to;

The Lexington Leader
P.O. Box 547
Lexington, TX 78947
979-773-3022
979-773-4125(fax)
For comments or questions, email The Lexington Leader at
ritaowen@lexingtonleader.com

Try this new link http://www.lexingtonleader.com/story44.shtml but just in case here is a reprint of the article.

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Gun Recoil Claims Life of 12 Year Old Boy


Lee County Sheriff Chief Deputy Rodney Meyer leads the investigation of the death Marcus Wall. The investigation continues into the accident. - A 12-year-old San Antonio boy died Saturday afternoon south of Giddings when he was struck on the top of the head by the recoil of a Ruger .454 gun he was firing. The boy, identified by the Lee County Sheriff�s Office as Marcus Wall, was pronounced dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace Paul Fischer.

Sheriff�s Deputy Rodney Meyer stated that the victim and his father, Marc Wall, were with friends dove hunting on the Zoch place off County Road 233. Deputy Meyer reported that when the hunters took a break for lunch, they began shooting a variety of guns owned within the group. The Ruger .454 Casull was purportedly owned by Joe Ramsey of Austin.

According to the Sheriff�s report, when Marcus asked to shoot the Ruger, Ramsey told the young boy the gun was too large for him to shoot. However, allegedly it was later �OK�ed for him [Marcus] to shoot the gun�. The report did not identify who gave permission for the child to shoot, though Ramsey stood by the boy when he fired.

From the Sheriff�s account of the incident, Marcus was instructed how to hold and shoot the gun. �Mr. Ramsey assisted the victim [when taking aim] by holding his hand above the victim�s [hands] for the recoil,� explained Deputy Meyer.

When the gun was fired, the gun recoiled upward, hitting Marcus in the head causing head trauma. The gun�s owner, Ramsey, received injury to his fingers but was not transported for medical attention.

The Sheriff�s Office 911 dispatch received two calls reporting the incident, though only the second caller could identify their location. Deputy Mike York advised dispatch that he was in the area and had been flagged down and directed to the location. Upon arrival at the scene, Deputy York radioed to dispatch to cancel the call for an ambulance and to send out a Justice of the Peace.

The recoil velocity of the Ruger .454 has been noted for its strength for some time. In a May 2001 article in Shooting Times, author Dick Metcalf reported that �...when the .454 Casull version of the Super Redhawk was introduced in 1999, Ruger spokesmen candidly acknowledged they did not expect the new chambering to be shot a lot for casual plinking or for steel-target competition. Its recoil was simply too severe.�

Deputy Meyer stated that the case is still under investigation.




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the kid may have had a underlying anuriziam or enlarged vein in the frontal lobes of his brain and the strike cause the blood vesle to rupture....

the kid would have had been killed probably if he had been hit hard in a foot ball game the 454 is firce but by no means has enough force to kill epcecialy since the artical also states there was a adult hand on top of the gun to slow recoil as well i bet autopsy reviels the child had a underlying brain or head anuriziam.
 
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